Old Stage Show at MGM

[meeko_33785]

I have been looking all over the Internet and I can't seem to find any info on a show I saw at MGM Studios about a year after it first opened. It was at the Theater of the Stars and featured a bunch of Disney characters like Mickey, Goofy, Roger Rabbit, and the rest of the gang singing songs from Hollywood films. Don't remember too much about it, but I seem to remember Minnie Mouse singing "I'm In The Money" and I think someone doing "Singin' in the Rain" Anyone have any idea of the name of that show?

 

[X2CommNavISTC]

My map that I have from the Studios 1st birthday has a pic in there but all it tells you is that its a bandshell for shows. It was called Hooray for Hollywood or something like that, not to sure though.

Anyone who will be walking through the CM entrance at the Studios, there is a set of pictures by the costuming department as you walk out towards the street backstage, they have a pic, check it out, should have the name on there.

 

[Mary Poppins]

It was called "Hollywood Hollywood".

 

[meeko_33785]

Thanks you two.

 

[vonpluto]

Her's a incomplete list of shows:

Theater of the Stars 5/89 - 5/93
(torn down for Sunset Blvd expansion)
Show Biz Is ?/89 - ?/89
Now Playing 5/89 - ?/89
Hollywood! Hollywood! 7/89? - ?/?
Hollywoods Pretty Woman 12/89? - 4/90?
________ Tracy Starring in Diamond Double Cross 5/90 - 2/91
Beauty & the Beast 11/91 - 5/93

HTH,
Frank

 

[Mary Poppins]

Originally posted by vonpluto
Her's a incomplete list of shows:

________ Tracy Starring in Diamond Double Cross 5/90 - 2/91
Beauty & the Beast 11/91 - 5/93

The Show was ________ Tracy.

 

[Mary Poppins]

Oh, I thought you didn't remember the name of the show. I didn't realize that the short version of the name Richard was a banned word.

 

[vonpluto]

Thanx for the heads up.
Let's make that:
(redacted) Tracy in Diamond Double Cross


Frank

 

[daniam2188]

Originally posted by vonpluto
Her's a incomplete list of shows:

Theater of the Stars 5/89 - 5/93
(torn down for Sunset Blvd expansion)
Show Biz Is ?/89 - ?/89
Now Playing 5/89 - ?/89
Hollywood! Hollywood! 7/89? - ?/?
Hollywoods Pretty Woman 12/89? - 4/90?
________ Tracy Starring in Diamond Double Cross 5/90 - 2/91
Beauty & the Beast 11/91 - 5/93

HTH,
Frank

isint that theater w/ beauty and the beast still there i dont think it closed

 

[vonpluto]

The original Theater of the Stars was located approximately where Sunset Blvd. joins Hollywood Blvd. It was torn down for the Sunset expansion. The new theater opened about the same time as TOT
(7/94).


HTH,
Frank

 

[s25843]

Originally posted by daniam2188
isint that theater w/ beauty and the beast still there i dont think it closed

The Current Theater is not the original

 

[Bagheera]

OK, the image is small, but take a look at the park map from 1989 in my last MousePlanet article. If you look at the spot where Hollywood and Sunset Boulevards currently meet (just to the left of where it says "Studio Arch Gate"), you'll see a horizontal orange oval. That's the original Theater of the Stars. On the original map, you can see that the reason that the top side of the oval looks thicker and darker is that it is actually showing the levels of the amphitheater seating. By the way, in the original theater, there was no roof.

[Edit: Actually, you can see it even more clearly in the tile image in the right-hand column.]

 

[steve2wdw]

We first saw Beauty and the Beast in the old outdoor theater (at night). I remember how great it looked under the stars, especially the "Kill the Beast" song. I miss the quaintness of the original theatre. It was reminescent of the Hollywood Bowl in CA.

 

[daniam2188]

ooooohhhhhh thanks for the clairifacation...i was just very confused

 

[meeko_33785]

Originally posted by steve2wdw
We first saw Beauty and the Beast in the old outdoor theater (at night). I remember how great it looked under the stars, especially the "Kill the Beast" song. I miss the quaintness of the original theatre. It was reminescent of the Hollywood Bowl in CA.

Yeah, I remember seeing Beauty and the Beast in the old theater at night as well. It was very nice looking, but I do think the new theater is a much better venue. The stage is larger so they are able to do more elaborate choreography (to be perfectly honest, the version they did at the old theater was very hokey like a MK character show). The old theater was quaint, but the new one is, IMO, a great improvement.